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Title: String-freeze exception for scary third party vendor string Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “software-center” source package in Precise: In Progress Bug description: software-center 4.0.2, Ubuntu 11.04 In the overview of software in Software Centre that does not come from the officially supported archives, a warning text is shown informing the user that this particular piece of software is not supported by Canonical, but that updates MAY be delivered by the community/a third- party. It is not only shown for software from community-maintained archvies or for PPAs, but also for software that is on sale. Although this message is factually correct, it is a scary message. Users might get the impression that by default no updates should be expected, but if you are lucky something might be done. Especially for paid applications, this might not be very encouraging towards users. I would suggest to change the warning from a negative formulation to a positive: updates for this software are provided by X. Not Canonical, etc. Furthermore, this message is also shown for packages from the Canonical Partner archive--which is maintained by Canonical, AFAI. Is that desired behaviour? See also bug 579855 and bug 659993. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/789596/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
